Read rivers, reverse redEncumbered day does not inscribeOutside faces liltWe are not borrowed from airI write from automatic pleasure of washing machinesDead grass, mud, springAnd where do we live?Beheaded, momentary chalcedonyEmbedded lines account for gazeSinuous outlines are their own personsI could watch them foreverDo not wait for recoverySuccessive endings, beginningsClasped between eyes

Laynie Browne is the author of ten collections of poetry and two novels. Her most recent collection of poems, Lost Parkour Ps(alms) is out in two editions, one in English, and another in French, from Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havré (2014). She is a 2014 Pew Fellow. Forthcoming books include Scorpyn Odes (Kore Press) and P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel Texts).